vstars Chapter 225 I Want to Accompany Him
Chapter 225 I Want to Accompany Him
Ru Ping exclaimed, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty! It really is the Seventh Prince!"
Ru Ping brought the child to Lan Qingwu, who immediately recognized that it was his child! But who was the child who was thrown off the cliff?
Emperor Shenwu's mind suddenly changed, and he thought of many possibilities.
Zhou Qihuai, who was forced to kneel on the ground, shouted, "Impossible! I stole that kid with my own hands. His swaddling clothes, clothes, accessories, everything is intact! How could I be wrong? I personally threw that kid off the cliff!"
Mulan, who had just arrived at the mountain and didn't understand the situation, was stunned when she heard this. Her face was pale and her fingers kept shaking. Although Mulan had anticipated various possibilities of her son, she was still heartbroken when she heard it with her own ears. The great pain made her lose the ability to speak in an instant.
Lan Qingwu still had something to understand. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she said in shock, "That's your child!"
But - why?
Zhou Qihuai's shouting, the silent generals and soldiers, and the emperor who guessed the truth formed a unique landscape in the back mountain of Guoan Temple.
After an unknown amount of time, Mulan gradually calmed down and regained her voice. She bowed respectfully to Lan Qingwu and said, "This is the first time I'm actually meeting you! You certainly don't recognize me, but I've known you for many years. I was one of the girls you rescued in the border village over a decade ago. My name is Mulan."
Lan Qingwu resolved the doubts in his heart, but fell into another vortex of pain.
"Mulan? I heard Yu Piaolan mention you."
"Yes, it was Sister Piaolan who built a bridge between us, allowing us to hear you and feel you at all times."
"what on earth is it?"
Mulan slowly walked toward the cliff. "The rebel leader needed a wet nurse, and my son was only a few months old, so I took the job, hoping it would help support the family. I happened to learn that the young man in fine clothes was the son of my former benefactor. Trapped in the house, I desperately swapped my son for the Empress's."
Zhou Qihuai's face twisted when he heard this: "Impossible! How could someone do such a thing! Sending their own son to die! Impossible!"
No one paid any attention to Zhou Qihuai's roar. Lan Qingwu could not bear the result: "That's your son! Mulan..."
Mulan turned around and said softly, "My Queen, please don't feel sad for me. If it weren't for you, we sisters wouldn't be alive today. Your Queen, you have saved countless orphans and children. You shouldn't have to endure this pain! Your Queen, this bow is to thank you for saving our lives. This bow is to thank you for extending a helping hand to us again!"
Lan Qingwu asked tremblingly, "Mulan, what do you want to do?"
Mulan stood up and looked towards the depths of the cliff: "I have repaid Mulan's life-saving grace. Next, I will go find my little treasure."
How could Lan Qingwu not understand Mulan's feelings at this moment considering the pain she had just experienced? But what words could comfort a mother who had just lost her son?
Emperor Shenwu gave a friendly look to Qian Hui beside him, and Qian Hui nodded in understanding.
Lan Qingwu, who had guessed what Mulan was going to do, could hardly support herself. Emperor Shenwu held her in one hand and said incoherently, "Mulan... don't...
Mulan turned around resolutely and said: "I am also a mother."
Two women of completely different identities and statuses said exactly the same thing: "My little treasure is so small and cries so much. It's so dark and deep down at the bottom of the cliff. He must be very scared! I'm a mother. I want to be with him!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Mulan jumped off the cliff. Ye Feng, who was closest to her, only had time to grab a piece of Mulan's clothes. He looked towards the cliff, which was already pitch black and out of sight.
Everyone was shocked by this sudden turn of events, except Zhou Qihuai, who kept shouting, "This can't be true! How could anyone be so stupid? Zhou Xuheng, you're so lucky! Even this didn't kill your son! Father is partial, and by God, even you are partial! I don't accept it! I don't accept it!"
Leng Qujing, who was standing beside the emperor, thought to himself, "It's not that God is partial. It's that person who planted a seed of kindness over a decade ago, and now that seed has grown into a towering tree!"
And the crazy and brutal Zhou Qihuai will never understand why.
The heartbroken Lan Qingwu finally came to her senses. She looked at the seventh prince in Ruping's arms and slowly walked towards the edge of the cliff.
At the edge of the cliff, a breeze blew, gently lifting a corner of Lan Qingwu's dress.
Lan Qingwu raised his hands above his head and knelt down solemnly on the edge of the cliff, kowtowed once, twice, and again.
The encounter many years ago had unexpectedly ended in this way. Lan Qingwu had no way to repay them and could only kneel down to thank the mother and son for saving him.
Ru Ping, who was already in tears, knelt down with the Seventh Prince in her arms. This simple and unpretentious woman finally chose to repay her gratitude in this way, and then chose to be a mother in a decisive way. She admired her from the bottom of her heart.
For the first time, Emperor Shenwu bent down and bowed towards the cliff to express his gratitude. Behind him, Qian Hui, Leng Qujing and others all knelt down to thank this small yet great woman!
In the end, Zhou Qihuai was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison by Emperor Shenwu.
After the intervention of the Ministry of Clan Affairs and the struggle in the court, Emperor Shenwu finally decided to spare Zhou Qihuai's life. However, how to spare him was up to Emperor Shenwu.
Zhou Qihuai had never imagined that he would actually pray for death one day. Although the Emperor Shenwu hadn't taken his life, the poison he had people feed him every day made him suffer terribly.
In the dim sky prison, Zhou Qihuai slowly crawled to the prison door. His skinny fingers tightly grasped the railings and he screamed loudly: "Someone come! Is there anyone here? Zhou Xuheng, kill me! Kill me! Kill me if you dare!"
Zhou Qihuai's voice grew increasingly hoarse, and his words gradually became inaudible. Zhou Qihuai was in agony and despair, vaguely recalling his glorious birth. He was the second son, born to the empress, and his father had always treated all his sons equally when they were children.
However, ever since the eldest son was ambushed and his right hand was crippled, the queen mother placed all her hopes on him, the second son.
Zhou Qihuai was arrogant and domineering, looking down on everyone. He wouldn't let anyone who disobeyed him go easily! His good-for-nothing eldest brother, the lowly-born Third Prince, and the cunning and eloquent Sixth Prince were all he considered a rival. The only one he ever considered a rival was the Fourth Prince, born to Concubine An.
He did not regard the eldest prince as his opponent, and bullied and abused the third prince. As for the sixth prince, when the fourth prince Zhou Qizhen designed to frame the sixth prince, he even added fuel to the fire and indirectly killed the sixth prince!
This incident also made his father extremely disappointed in him. He loudly rebuked him to his face: "The hearts of King Zhou of Shang and King Jie of Xia were completely devoid of brotherly love! If they were like this to their blood brothers, how much more so would they be to the common people of the world!"